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Show NEWS SUMMARY Senator Glay has boon unanimously unanimous-ly re-elected by tho Georgia legislature. legisla-ture. The International congress on tuberculosis tuber-culosis is In session in Stockholm, Sweden. A sovoro earthquake shock was felt at Rawalpindi, India, July 8, govern) houses collapsing, but no lives wcro lost. Harry K. Thaw Is again trying Tor release from tho asylum, nnd declares ho has high hopes of securing his freedom. Heavy rains In Moxlco tho past week havo caused damage to the railroads rail-roads of at least three quarters of a million dollars. Tho stato suproin court has handed down a decision upholding tho validity valid-ity of tho Colorado local option law, passed two years ago. An epidemic of typhus fever Is raging rag-ing nt Monterey, Mexico, nnd Bcores of people are dyng, tho death list among tho poor class being vory heavy. Tho long expected coal strlko at Sydney, C. 11., is on, throo thousand men having refused to enter tho pits, but at least that number remaining nt work. Tho Gorman and Austrian railroad authorities havo Informed Russia thnt they aro about to take stops to Institute Insti-tute a quarantine on tho frontier against cholera. James Corcoran, of Lowell, Mass., agod 28 years, an neronaut, was killed by falling 200 feet from a parachuto during tho Fourth of July celebration nt Portland, Maine. During a celebration In Reservoir park, at Camden, N. J., a cannon exploded, ex-ploded, a pieco of which killed Mrs. Irma Ilebcl and hor six weeks' old In- fnnt and fatally Injured two boys. Sovonteon Inspectors and four revenue rev-enue agents on tho denatured alcohol rolls of tho internal revenue department depart-ment havo been dismissed because their services are no longer neodea. Tho trial of D. W. Woods, Fred Torgensen, James Gordon and Jack Shelton, charged with tho Union Pacific Pa-cific mall robbery at Omaha, on May 22, has been postponed until September Septem-ber 20. Working tho combination of tho safe In tho offices of tho Los Angeles-Pacific Angeles-Pacific railway, at Los Angeles, a thiof, believed by ofilcora of tho company com-pany to be an employe, procured $."5,700 In gold and currency. Miss Isola Kennedy, of Morgan Hill, nenr San Jose, Cnl., Is, In a' critical condition from injuries inflicted by a mountain lion. Miss Kennedy was taking an outing with two young men when tho animal sprang upon hor. Verno Yohn, an amatour aeronaut of Chicago, fell nearly a thousand feet under his deflated balloon, at a cclobratlon at Waukogan. Both wrists and ankles were broken and his back was Injured, but ho will recover. George A. Pollock, assistant commissioner com-missioner of tho general land ofllco during tho Roosevelt administration, widoly known In tho west and northwest, north-west, particularly In tho forestry and land services, died at his homo at Boyds, Md., July G. Ambassador Reld has .been informed in-formed that tho fifth cruiser squadron of the fifth British naval arm, consist- Ing-of four ships, has been designated to attond tho Hudson-Fulton celebration, celebra-tion, to bo hold In Now York, August 15 to October 9 noxt. Mrs. M. Locumber, who keeps a boarding houso at a mining camp near New Idrla, In the southern part of San Benito county, California, and her four children, wcro burned to death as tho result of an alleged incendiary in-cendiary firo last week. In tho Fourth of July cowboy tournament tour-nament at Nogales, Soaora, tho world's record for throwing and tying a wild steer was broken by Ed Hall, of Nutt, N. M who pay-formed tho feat in 21 seconds flat Tho previous record was 21 1-5 seconds. Tho iriystorlo'uB shooting of Mrs. Lorenn.de la Montanya, in hor apartment apart-ment In San Francisco, last Friday night, which tho police at first thought to havo been Bulcldo, Is said by parlies par-lies present at tho tlmo to havo been a case of accidental 'shooting. Ira W. Lamuuyon, aged 82, tho only surviving member of tho Massachusetts Massachu-setts convention held in Jackson, Mich., July L 1854, at which the Republican Re-publican party was organized, died at Denver, Colo,, July 7, at tho homo of his daughter, Mrs. Michael Doyle. Frank Cecil Hopkins, tho 12-year-old boy of Modesta, Cal., who recontly ?hot and killed his baby brother and then hurried tho body in a pig pen, has been sent to tho reform school. Tho boy will be confined In tho Institution Insti-tution until ho reaches his majority, Tho American Sugar & Refining company, in tho United States Circuit court in Now York City, on July G, entered pleas of not guilty to tho Indictments In-dictments recently found against it as I a corporation, charging conspiracy I and combination in rostralnt of trade. |
